Blood pressure variability is significantly associated with ECG left ventricular mass in normotensive Africans: The SABPA Study

Hypertension Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1127-1134

  Schutte, Aletta E ^a   Schutte, Rudolph ^a   Huisman, Hugo W ^a   Van Rooyen, Johannes M ^a   Fourie, Carla M T ^a   Malan, Nicolaas T ^a   Malan, Leoné ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

albumin to creatinine ratio; ethnicity; intima media thickness; left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 80053526229     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.104     Document Type: Article

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